Above Grade: On the High Line

The latest phase of New York City's High Line opened this summer, and a narrative history of the park is being published this month. Here native New Yorker Phillip Lopate traces the pre-history of the project, and ponders the inevitable preservation conundrum: will its "present magic" survive the real estate development that its success is sure to inspire? Will future visitors to the elevated park find themselves "trapped in a canyon of spanking new high-rise condos"?
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REINHOLD MARTIN

Occupy: What Architecture Can Do

When a thousand demonstrators gathered in Lower Manhattan on September 17 to protest rising economic inequality in the United States, few predicted that within weeks the Occupy movement would spread across the country and around the world. Here Reinhold Martin explores how architects might participate, in the provision of shelter on the protest sites, and beyond. "Is it not time," he asks, "to refuse the so-called common sense of privatization and financialization, and to construct new processes, strategies or institutions — rather than ever more refined forms of indenture — dedicated to the common provision of shelter?"
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Curating Race Curating Space Symposium November 12

The symposium aims to solidify the role theory, literary imagination and visual culture can play in architectural production. It will be followed by a launch party for CriticalProductive, a new biannual peer-reviewed academic journal.

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Mapping Spectral Traces Symposium Planned for October 2012

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Urbanized: An Interview with Gary Hustwit

Opening theatrically this weekend in New York, the documentary Urbanized aims to bring new ideas in urban design to a general audience. Adam Harrison Levy sits down with filmmaker Gary Hustwit — whose previous films include Helvetica and Objectified — to talk about urbanist strategies that have richocheted around the world, from Capetown to Bogotá.
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Seattle Central Library: Civic Architecture in the Age of Media

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WEEKLY EMAIL: NOVEMBER 09, 2011
FEATURED THIS WEEK : PHILLIP LOPATE Above Grade: On the High Line The latest phase of New York City's High Line opened this summer, and a narrative history of the park is being published this month. Here native New Yorker Phillip Lopate traces the pre-history of the project, and ponders the inevitable preservation conundrum: will its "present magic" survive the real estate development that its success is sure to inspire? Will future visitors to the elevated park find themselves "trapped in a canyon of spanking new high-rise condos"? READ MORE
REINHOLD MARTIN Occupy: What Architecture Can Do When a thousand demonstrators gathered in Lower Manhattan on September 17 to protest rising economic inequality in the United States, few predicted that within weeks the Occupy movement would spread across the country and around the world. Here Reinhold Martin explores how architects might participate, in the provision of shelter on the protest sites, and beyond. "Is it not time," he asks, "to refuse the so-called common sense of privatization and financialization, and to construct new processes, strategies or institutions — rather than ever more refined forms of indenture — dedicated to the common provision of shelter?" READ MORE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Curating Race Curating Space Symposium November 12 The symposium aims to solidify the role theory, literary imagination and visual culture can play in architectural production. It will be followed by a launch party for CriticalProductive, a new biannual peer-reviewed academic journal. Read more READ MORE FROM OUR SPONSORS Learn to be a design critic through SVA's D-Crit program.Design as subject matter, criticism as a literary genre and the range of tools with which to practice design criticism. Watch videos of presentations by the Class of 2011 >> The D-Crit Program >> SVA Website >> Felt & Wire Shop, a curated marketplace of designer papergoods, gifts and also an industry blog. Shop here for beautiful unique gifts, journals, note cards, posters and stationary. The Felt & Wire Shop >> UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Mapping Spectral Traces Symposium Planned for October 2012 An international network of researchers and creative practitioners work with and in traumatized communities and contested lands to map unacknowledged histories. Read more READ MORE ADAM HARRISON LEVY Urbanized: An Interview with Gary Hustwit Opening theatrically this weekend in New York, the documentary Urbanized aims to bring new ideas in urban design to a general audience. Adam Harrison Levy sits down with filmmaker Gary Hustwit — whose previous films include Helvetica and Objectified — to talk about urbanist strategies that have richocheted around the world, from Capetown to Bogotá. READ MORE		BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK \| FOLLOW US ON TWITTER Learn more now. Visit MPS/Branding site today >> Go on, tempt the fates. Enter the show celebrating the best design ever printed on Mohawk paper. Enter here >> The place to go for the latest and most trusted information regarding sustainability in our industry. eQ from Sappi >> Advertise with Design Observer We're Everywhere for Everyone Email for More Information >> PLACES ARCHIVE: WINTER 2006 Seattle Central Library: Civic Architecture in the Age of Media In the Seattle Public Library, Rem Koolhaas and OMA work to transform architecture into media interface. READ MORE PARTNER SCHOOL University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation provides a process through which students and the professional community can express the creativity, acquire the technical capacity, accept the social responsibility, and recognize a sense of history to make the decisions that shape the built environment. Through research, practice, outreach and teaching, students learn to understand the built environment at all scales: from the history, design, function and impact of a single building or public space to the operation, physical form and socioeconomic system of a metropolitan region. RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED American Glamour Alice T. Friedman Reading the American Landscape: An Index of Books and Images Lex ter Braak, David Hamers, Anne Hoogewoning, Erik de Jong, Frank van der Salm, Dirk Sijmons and Hanneke Schreiber Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City Richard Weller
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